I wish I could tell him I understand: the higher you raise your hopes, the farther you have to fall.

Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract. And sometimes, because we have to.

I shouldn't have eavesdropped, but sometimes, that's the only way to find out the truth.

That,” she says, “was never here before.

The problem was, you couldn't have one without the other. There couldn't be a bad guy unless there was a good guy to create the standard. And there couldn't be a good guy until a bad guy showed just how far off the path he might stray.

Stem cell research has become such a polarizing issue in America... and I wanted to bring it down to the personal level, instead of the political.

There are so many ways a family can unravel. All it takes is a tiny slash of selfishness, a rip of greed, a puncture of bad luck. And yet, woven tightly, family can be the strongest bond imaginable.